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BEL AIR — The Harford County Community Mediation Program (HCCMP) has initiated a new restorative justice program for youth in Harford County through a partnership between the nonprofit Community Conferencing Center and the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services. The program will offer community conferencing as an alternative for young people

Involvement in the juvenile justice system increases the odds that a young person will drop out of high school and be incarcerated as a teenager or an adult. A new video tells the story of a young woman in trouble for whom caring adults made a different decision.

Baltimore Sun It has been years since visitors to North Gay and Washington in East Baltimore have seen anything much but blight. Boarded-up rowhouses line the streets. Weeds flourish in sidewalk cracks. But Walker Marsh looked at the Broadway East neighborhood and saw possibility. Marsh, 28, has created a flower